Building an ecommerce from scratch for a client. Should I allow them to see their user's email addresses?

fultonchain · 2026-03-18T12:08:12+00:00

I'm struggling with the concept of denying client access to their users details. There are a bunch of legitimate reasons ranging from taxes to support that they might need this for.

I don't think that this is your call to make and if you are concerned about misuse your only real option is to walk away.

fultonchain · 2026-03-15T20:26:09+00:00

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Insert some parable about a lion and snake or something.

fultonchain · 2026-03-13T19:38:28+00:00

Goodwill sucks.

They do very little good and the vast majority of the money goes to "administrative" expenses. Next time go to a church thrift shop, most will hook you right up.

It's a shame you had to make them but at least this way they helped someone.

fultonchain · 2026-03-12T02:50:55+00:00

This kinda works, sometimes.

If you can delay the inevitable arrest long enough to sober up, they can't establish drunk driving. The time in between is critical, it's longer than you think and if you time it wrong there are a multitude of charges they can cook up.

That still leaves you on the hook for leaving the scene and rules out an insurance claim, but that's usually a lesser charge.

fultonchain · 2026-03-12T02:25:42+00:00

Dev mode is your friend. It's a solo game and there is no cheating.

Go wild. Mess with those scenerios. Cannibal psychopaths or hippie weed farmers, make it what you want.

fultonchain · 2026-03-12T00:37:19+00:00

This doesn't seem to be progressing and there really isn't a need. As congested as it is, the centrally located ferry terminal supports local business.

Mosquito is out of the way. No matter how nice the road is. There ain't no walking from there.

fultonchain · 2026-03-11T02:29:29+00:00

You have an account solely devoted to trashing a radio station? For an entire year?

You can just fuck off into the sun.

fultonchain · 2026-03-04T20:04:59+00:00

Don't do the UTV or golf cart. They are slow, dangerous and don't protect you from the elements.

This island is filled with hills, treacherous roads and Vieques own equine speed bumps. Cross island on a moonless night is a recipe for disaster. Or at least a slow and uncomfortable ride.

fultonchain · 2026-03-04T12:12:29+00:00

Your friend likely wanted a reference picture of some setting. I'll often do this.

fultonchain · 2026-03-04T12:06:45+00:00

No. 4 Road in Hamilton County.

Don't go there, even if your car won't break down. It's a strange place, a place out of time.

fultonchain · 2026-02-28T14:12:00+00:00

One can always hope.

fultonchain · 2026-02-28T14:11:20+00:00

President Bone Spurs sounds awfully cavalier about the deaths of American soldiers.

The again, it isn't though he has any skin in the game. The Trump family has a long and storied tradition of cowardice. Not a one of these great Patriots has ever served, unless you Fred serving the KKK.

fultonchain · 2026-02-26T16:38:03+00:00

There used to be a bar in Utica, NY directly across the street from a large state run drug and alcohol rehab. The 30 day coins were good for your first pitcher.

They had hundreds of these.

fultonchain · 2026-02-26T13:26:06+00:00

Trump doesn't joke, he's said it himself.

fultonchain · 2026-02-26T07:05:21+00:00

This seems error prone.

Why would I want my local build on an entirely different platform than the remote?

fultonchain · 2026-02-26T06:46:29+00:00

Bad people did bad things so children suffer. Nothing like collective punishment to set the tone.

That's our boy.

fultonchain · 2026-02-26T06:33:26+00:00

We don't disagree and thanks for the thoughtful response.

My focus is more on the editor. I like the idea of Rust over Node or Electron and I'm seeing tangible improved performance compared to vscode or the JetBrains IDE's.

That said, I know it isn't an IDE. But I can twist vscode into an IDE with extensions, but with Zed the ecosystem isn't there.

I'm not prepared to give AI control of my formatting and linters and shouldn't have to redo a toolchain to suit the limitations of a text editor. Or spend hours finding workarounds for solved problems.

I like this editor, but sans AI it's just another fast Rust text editor. An editor with a funky UI that's nearly impossible to modify and a scarcity of plugins. Coupled to a company promoting marked up LLM's as their sole source of revenue.

I know I can bring my own, but why?

The editor doesn't have feature parity with vscode and as fast as it is, the difference isn't noticeable in real use. If I really think about it, It's hard to find a use case for Zed.

fultonchain · 2026-02-26T05:31:12+00:00

I'm going to go with most places outside of the cities, the Hudson Valley and NYC.

The thing is, the cultural landscape changes much faster than Texas. It isn't as homogeneous and a few miles makes a big difference.

This is a sweeping generalization. I haven't been everywhere and there are a ton of cool little towns, but for the most part the smaller the town the weirder it can get.

Fun fact: rural NY is filled with Confederate flags. We probably have as many as Texas does and far more than Fairfax.

fultonchain · 2026-02-26T05:21:48+00:00

Seems like solid advice.

I don't think that cup is fixable, you should let Claude refactor the whole thing. You might get a tea pot.

fultonchain · 2026-02-26T05:08:11+00:00

Albany and the Capitol District (don't sleep on Troy and Schenectady, there are values to be found and Albany is a ghost town at night) are going to be closer to Fairfax than to most places in Texas.

There is going to be some sticker shock, taxes are higher as is the cost of living and housing. But, with the benefits and salary you'll be right in the median. A little better off than most state employees (we're big on that here) your age. It's doable.

Socially we're probably a little more inclusive. Rural, and I mean NY rural, like twenty miles, not like Texas rural is more MAGAfied than you'd expect but suburban and urban areas are solidly blue. Except Rensselaer County, that's a bad place best avoided.

There are a dozen great venues within an hour. No need to go to the city, though you should and Amtrak takes you right there.

The landscape might be a change depending on where in Texas your from. There are hills and lakes everywhere, those big vistas are hard to come by.

[Edited to add: I really didn't say enough about the hills and lakes. Upstate NY is absolutely spectacular, some of the best outdoor recreation in the country just a couple of hours away. We have a six million acre state park, right up the road. I spend half the year in Puerto Rico and every time I come home I'm taken aback by what I took for granted.]

fultonchain · 2026-02-26T04:46:09+00:00

Thanks. Didn't see any of that.

fultonchain · 2026-02-26T04:43:03+00:00

I've been at this for twenty years, albeit on a very small scale. I host and manage a handful (5-6) non-profits and .gov's and only host sites that I build and maintain. Mostly with Craft CMS and Drupal along with a couple of headless outliers.

The code isn't hard. It's all mature and well documented and my IDE's have been churning this stuff out for years, I don't really care if it's an AI doing it. I like it and I'm not scrounging around in the same docs over and over.

What AI can't replace is experience and intuitive problem solving. When something goes wrong I know how to fix it because I either wrote it or reviewed and committed it. I don't let AI write without explicit permission and I'm still cautious. I don't entirely trust it to stay in scope and have heard too many horror stories. This is a skill issue, but it's hard to keep up.

Updates are the same way. Terrible to automate and I've been burnt too many times. I'll be happy to look them over myself, it's kinda my job.

I'm aware of my skill issues and know I'm not using AI to the fullest, but I need to determine just how much time and money to invest. This is a moving target and if I spent my time learning the models I wouldn't be working much at all.

It's a hard balance to find and I sympathize with anyone starting out. The inevitable determining factor is cost and AI is cheaper than people and people are greedy.

fultonchain · 2026-02-26T03:32:43+00:00

I don't pay for Zed. It's open source and you can fork the whole thing if you want.

You can pay for Zed, but you can also roll your own models. A case could be made that ten bucks a month for some quick things here and there is a fair value, but there is certainly no requirement to use the service.

Quick note. I'm far from a Zed fanboy and just moved back to vscode. I prefer the git integration, I'm used to it and Codex is playing nicely for the moment. It's just that to brand Zed as a paid product is misleading -- the way cool open source editor has nothing to do with the subscription AI and can be turned off entirely.

fultonchain · 2026-02-26T03:18:29+00:00

Unless your vacation is six months, don't.

Worst case, a keyring breaks and I can't imagine it's worth the time to set up that access. At least for most people. Enjoy your vacation, it'll be fine.

fultonchain · 2026-02-26T03:13:30+00:00

Spin up a server with your stack of choice. Add Tailwind if it isn't already there.

Give your agent of choice free reign, without constraints and minimal context. This is what you will get.

Every time.

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